A letter to Governor Miller from an attorney. Bernard Breitbart quotes, from an article in the New York Times, an anti-Semitic comment made by prosecutor Wade Wright. Breitbart writes that attorneys know trials must be impartial and that a...

A resolution sent by the Central Unemployed Council after the 1933 Decatur trial with Judge Horton. Resolution demands a change of venue to Birmingham, the release of the Scottsboro Boys and protection for them from lynching, and Negro and white...

A resolution demanding the unconditional release and protection of the Scottsboro defendants following the March 1933 verdict in Judge Horton's Decatur court. This resolution singles Haywood Patterson's case out for special protest.

A letter from the Young Women's Christian Association of the University of Nebraska to Governor Miller. They write that they are shocked at the verdict from Haywood Patterson's second trial, and ask that he be pardoned and given safe conduct home...

A resolution sent by the Polish Workers Club, Branch 57 to Governor Miller, demanding a new trial for Haywood Patterson, change of venue to Birmingham, and the immediate release of all Scottsboro defendants after the March 1933 Decatur trial. The...

A flyer announcing a rally in Union Square, New York City, printed by the New York District International Labor Defense and sent to Governor Miller. The flyer also urges people to send telegrams to Governor Miller, Attorney General Knight, Judge...

Petition from students at Howard University protesting the "deplorable miscarriage of justice" in Haywood Patterson's 1933 trial in Decatur before Judge Horton. Petition includes 7 pages with approximately 50 signatures each.

A letter from the University of Chicago Student League to Governor Miller. Members of the league united in protest against the verdict of Haywood Patterson's second trial. They ask Governor Miller to exercise his power to free the Scottsboro Boys.

A resolution from the Cosmopolitan Club of New York University after the 1933 Decatur trial with Judge Horton. Resolution demands a change of venue to Birmingham, the release of the Scottsboro Boys and protection for them and their attorneys from...

A resolution from the Russian Farmers and Workers Maxim Gorky Club that attributes the March 1933 Haywood Patterson verdict to "rampant class hatred and wanton persecution of colored people by the courts of the ruling class of the USA." The...

A resolution from Workers Ex-servicemen's League, Staten Island Post No. 174--a branch of an international veterans organization with ties to the Communist Party. Reacting to the Haywood Patterson verdict at the March 1933 trial in Decatur, the...

It advertises a march from Philadelphia to Washington, to be held on April 26th, 1933, in protest against the "legal lynching" of the 9 boys. It calls for a mass protest of Negro and white workers in order to save the Scottsboro Boys.

A resolution from 400 workers and farmers assembled for an anti-war May Day demonstration in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. It protests the conviction of Haywood Patterson at the 1933 trial and demands immediate release for all the Scottsboro boys....

A letter to Governor Miller. L. H. Goodshaw questions the handling of the Scottsboro Boys and other prisoners in the Alabama jail system. He wonders why the guards do not do a better job of protecting them, or if they have other inmates accost...

A letter to Governor Miller from the superintendent of public schools in Meadville, Pennsylvania, who is also chairman of the city's Inter-racial Committee. Warren P. Norton writes that the fact the communists of the International Labor Defense...

A letter from an attorney to Governor Miller. H. M. Darling writes that the Scottsboro Boys are entitled to bail, because under Alabama law, bail is allowed to prisoners unless the evidence is strong enough to assuredly convict them, and Judge...

A letter to Judge Callahan, copied to Governor Miller, from the International Association of Projectionists and Sound Engineers in North America. They write that the "White Ruling Class of Alabama" prevents the Scottsboro Boys from having a fair...

Mary J. Biggs writes that the International Labor Defense asked her for a contribution to the Scottsboro Boys' fund. Because she did not have the money, she decided to write to Governor Miller to ask that he protect the boys.

A letter from the Negro Businessmen's League signed by "Dr. George G. Mehlen" representing 1,161 members. The letter protests the 1933 verdicts from Judge Callahan's court and declares the Scottsboro defendants' innocence. It claims the NBL is...